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Posted at 4:47pm on May 19, 2008 Why is a third party automatically ruled out? [Closed and annotated.]
By Chuck
[You can discuss it all you like; alas, this site's for promoting conservative AND Republican ideals, so shilling for a third party's a definite no-no. Sorry, bub. - Moe Lane]
Wasn't there once a major political party called the Whigs? Whatever happened to them? Could it be that they lost their principles, and thus were replaced by the Republican party?
Well maybe it is time for the Republican party to be replaced by another. I'm not sure that the Libertarian party is to be that party. I would suggest that the Constitution Party actually may be the more appropriate party to replace the republicans, because it presents conservative principles, principles that are held by the majority of the citizens of the United States. Give their platform a gander, then discuss it among yourselves.
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Posted at 3:39pm on May 3, 2007 Is "Conservative Activist" Oxymoronic?
By Chuck
We often hear of the marches and the protests that are generally put on by the liberal left. Activism for them is accepted.
Conservatives, on the other hand tend to get up every morning and go to work to support their families. They don't ask for time off to protest, and if not working at the time of the protest, will not show up to confront the leftists on their march.
Yet, if a conservative speaker is scheduled to address some gathering somewhere, you can bet that the leftists are planning a protest, if not a general disruption of the event. Conservatives would never consider doing such a thing, believing that only in civilized discourse can the full exchange of ideas be achieved.
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Posted at 8:17am on Apr. 9, 2007 I don't know that he to whom it is attributed actually wrote this, but worth the read.
By Chuck
A commentary about the U.S. by Jay Leno (No basis to believe that Jay actually wrote this, I've received similar missives with no attribution. That doesn't detract from the thoughts presented.)
The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just aren't happy and want a change.
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Posted at 12:50pm on Apr. 6, 2007 Re: Global Warming: Anyone know if the data on this page has been updated elsewhere?
By Chuck
Doing some Googling on Global Warming, I came across this website.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
It states that it was last updated in January 2003. It seems odd that the information provided here has not been more broadly distributed. Does anyone know if the data has been updated elsewhere, disproving this climate hack? (nudge nudge wink wink)
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Posted at 2:29pm on Feb. 27, 2007 'Tis the Season
By Chuck
Taxes, where are the sunset laws when you need them. I am one of the few people in this world that actually has a PDF file of the tax code, or at least the codification of the various laws. Since the codification hasn't been enacted into positive law, it serves only as a guide. Should anyone wish to dispute the meaning, it would be necessary to find the particular enacted law to cite, and hopefully the congressional record cites associated with the congressional discussion. But I digress. My intent this morning is to plead for relief. I was prompted to prepare this little missive, by the following quote:
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Posted at 4:09pm on Nov. 14, 2006 The Issues According to a Candidate for Congress, Did he win?
By Chuck
What disputes have we with the following campaign issues as identified by a Candidate for Congress?
The Way Washington Works
Listening to all this nonsense about lobbyists buying Congressmen and people switching their vote because someone wrote them a check, you’d think Washington was the most corrupt city in America. That may be, but let me tell you something else – the real problem isn’t in the laws, it’s in the criminals. I know something about laws, and the one thing laws CAN’T do is prevent people from breaking them. We can pass all the new laws we want, and we will. But until we replace the people committed to breaking them, we’ll never have real reform. Congress doesn’t belong to the politicians, and it certainly doesn’t belong to the criminals. Congress belongs to us.
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Posted at 3:36pm on Nov. 9, 2006 The Social Security Problem
By Chuck
The Social Security question must be addressed, and hang the consequences, since a surprising number of senior citizens vote democratic to defend their income. Quit politicin’ and start working for the betterment of the citizens of the nation.
Social Security and Medicare are badly broken, and will bankrupt this country in twenty years. Look to an actuarial solution. Pension plans are under scrutiny by the regulators because of the unfunded liabilities. Well what about the world’s largest pension plan, Social Security? It wasn’t originally intended to be the sole support for retirement, but because of Democratic promises, and Republican complicity, it has become so, to the point where the most vocal complaints are people complaining that they can’t live on social security alone. (Well, duh.)
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Posted at 3:10pm on Nov. 9, 2006 Was it the War in Iraq?
By Chuck
That seems to be the consensus opinion of the main stream media. Because Americans believed we were failing in Iraq, they voted in all of the Democratic candidates to give the Democratic party control of both houses of Congress. Moveon.org touts that reason.
Yet, the Republican leadership points to the failure of the Republican party from living by its principles as the reason for the “thumpin’”. Which is it?
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Posted at 1:07pm on Nov. 1, 2006 If the Joke was "Botched", what was it?
By Chuck
When I heard the quote, my first thought was: "here is a person trying to cozy up to his college kid audience by making fun of those poor smucks in the military."
Then he comes out and says he was talking about Bush, that it was a Botched joke. However, despite all his words, never was the joke clarified or told correctly. How should the comments he made be revised to correctly tell the joke? It doesn't make sense that he's talking about Bush not being educated, since W has a MBA from an Ivy League school and his grades were better than Kerry's.
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Posted at 12:09pm on Oct. 28, 2006 Where would we be today, if past wars had been covered by today's media?
By Chuck
I ask this as I read a headline touting the deaths of 98 brave soldiers during the month of October. I got to thinking back, had the media covered prior wars as they do the Operation Iraqi Freedom, we would still be a colony of Great Britain. After all, many died to bring this nation into existence. After all of the deaths during the revolutionary war, we would have lost the war of 1812, and once again been a subject of the crown.